The Ballad of Jack and Rose Reviews

Doesn't succeed in everything it sets out to do, but as a statement about the death rattle of 60s counterculture it's thoughtful and affecting.

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The Ballad of Jack and Rose, like the community it elucidates, is not perfect. Like the people who try so desperately to make the most of the world in which they live, it is full of flaws, inconsistencies, and shortcomings.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

A disjointed collection of characters whose dysfunctional behavior modes only reinforce the aimlessness of the narrative.

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It is the harbinger of great films to come from an exceptional screenwriter and director.

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Belle is equally good, proving that she's a real movie star in the making - there's a sort of feral energy to Rose that's genuinely scary and disturbingly unpredictable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's about two-thirds a great movie and worth it for those two-thirds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Generally it works, thanks to the terrific performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A fable of the end of innocence, complete with such symbols of paradise lost as a snake (a fugitive copperhead) and a toppled playhouse.

| Original Score: '3/4'

As indie efforts go, The Ballad of Jack and Rose pushes a lot of the classic indie audience buttons, coupled with some depressingly mainstream ones.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Ballad wears out one tale before its end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

[A] strange blend of a daughter's coming of age and a father's advancing toward death.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The always-superb Day-Lewis and bright newcomer Belle almost redeem this pretentious, improbable scenario. But almost isn't enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

Poignant, melancholic and a little strange, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is an effective rendering of the loss of innocence and the acceptance that some ideals can't survive in a modern world.

| Original Score: 3/4

Rebecca Miller's third feature begins as a two-character drama, and it would have been so much better if it had stayed that way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Murky, disturbing stuff that most of the time does better at repelling viewers than compelling them to stick around to see what happens next.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The entire movie seems to be suffering from the same suffocating disease as Jack.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, and that's right down to its artificial-feeling ending.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

We leave this movie hoping to see Miller and Lewis together again soon.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Performances are exceptional in this melodramatic film from the daughter of Arthur Miller.

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Daniel Day-Lewis gives the first great performance of 2005.

Full Review | Original Score: B+